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I want to build an editorial style guide site for internal use at our company, with hierarchical organization and automatically generated outline numbering (so if I add one article above another, or create a new section, all the articles update their numbers automatically).

Take a look at this for an example: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch01/ch01_toc.html

Only I need to be able to edit posts, really, although allowing people to comment would be nice.

Is EE the right choice for this? What do you think would be the best approach? Or is there another system?

If you want automatically updating numbered lists then that’s what the <OL> tag is for.

EE will easily handle all the content for you, including commenting, but the numbering is more to do with how your structure your HTML.

Thanks for the response. Nested <ol> tags can’t give you outline numbering, like 4.2.12 (unless I’m mistaken?)—I need a CMS to be able to handle that.

But it’s not as simple as that anyway—I want posts that know what number they are in the hierarchy. So once you’ve clicked through to an entry (“4.2.13: Gilbert and Sullivan,” say), that entry knows what it’s number is and displays it as part of the headline (independent from the list).

Possible?

You could use a custom field for your “order” number, then sort entries by the custom field values. That value could thene be reused wherever you wanted, such as the full entry page in the main heading.